Selab (
Azerbaycanca:
Selab,
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:
سئلاب), is a district of
Tabriz
Tabriz (; ) is a city in the Central District (Tabriz County), Central District of Tabriz County, in the East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran. It serves as capital of the province, the county, and the distric ...
.
Selab district is located in North of Tabriz, south of
Eynali mountain and consists of two neighbourhoods:
Selab Bazarçası and
Quşxana Selab. Selab was traditionally a labour class district since at least
Qajar
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era. During
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the last List of monarchs of Iran, Shah of Iran, ruling from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown by the ...
's industrialization plans under the name of
white revolution
The White Revolution () or the Shah and People Revolution () was a far-reaching series of reforms to aggressively modernize the Pahlavi Iran, Imperial State of Iran launched on 26 January 1963 by the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and ended with ...
(ca. 1960s), Selab became a destination of the unskilled labour
immigrants
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from the
Iranian Azerbaijan
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's rural areas. It is one of the most dense and poorest districts of Tabriz.
References
Districts of Tabriz
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